Ever since I heard this announcement back in September I wasn't at all surprised. I noticed that only the IDE hard drives were getting their warranty cut, while the SCSI remained the same. All these companies will be pushing out Serial ATA drives soon (if they aren't already) and I'm betting they'll have a 3 year warranty. It makes sense because if a person is faced with buying new parts and the Serial ATA option comes with a longer warranty they are more likely to go that route. In the meantime they cut their costs by lowering the warranty on IDE hard drives and they also caused a lot of suppliers to buy a large number of drives before October 1st to get the drives that still would have an honoured 3 year warranty. Around the end of September whenever the company I worked for would try to order a 60 or 80 gig 7200 or other larger faster drives we'd find constantly that our suppliers were out of stock. Maybe I'm wrong, but it just seems to all fit to me.
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Ever since I heard this announcement back in September I wasn't at all surprised. I noticed that only the IDE hard drives were getting their warranty cut, while the SCSI remained the same. All these companies will be pushing out Serial ATA drives soon (if they aren't already) and I'm betting they'll have a 3 year warranty. It makes sense because if a person is faced with buying new parts and the Serial ATA option comes with a longer warranty they are more likely to go that route. In the meantime they cut their costs by lowering the warranty on IDE hard drives and they also caused a lot of suppliers to buy a large number of drives before October 1st to get the drives that still would have an honoured 3 year warranty. Around the end of September whenever the company I worked for would try to order a 60 or 80 gig 7200 or other larger faster drives we'd find constantly that our suppliers were out of stock. Maybe I'm wrong, but it just seems to all fit to me.